Programme

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Thursday, November 1

h	Topic	Gr. ÜR	Mi. ÜR
13.00-14.00	Registration		x
14.00-14.30	Introduction	x
14.30-15.15	Henrik Kragh Sørensen - "Meeting under the integral sign: Politics and mathematics at the 1936 ICM in Oslo"	x
15.30-16.15	Susanne Spies - "On the aesthetics of mathematics"	x
16.15-16.45	Coffee break		x
16.45-17.30	Roxana Grigoras - "A comparison of techniques for learning and using mathematics and a study of their relationship to logical principles"	x
17.45-18.30	Wijnand Rekers - "Mechanical engineering in The Netherlands in the 19th century"	x
	Andreas Christiansen - "A hermeneutic approach to analyzing historical textbooks in mathematics"		x
20.00	Meet and greet at “Casa del Gatto”

Friday, November 2

h	Topic	HS VIII	Bib
mornings	Excursion: Sightseeing walk Bonn, visit Arithmeum
13.30-14.15	Uffe Thomas Jankvist - "Empirical research on using history in mathematics education - evaluating a teaching module"	x
14.30-15.15	Matthias Brandl - "The vibrating string – an initial problem for modern mathematics; historical and didactical aspects"	x
15.15-15.45	Coffee break	x
15.45-16.30	Bart van Kerkhove - "Empirical roots of knot theory"	x
16.45-17.30	Bjoern Schirmeier - "Mathematics and culture – some views of Weimar Republic mathematicians on their own discipline"	x
17.30-18.00	Coffee break	x
18.00-19.30	Invited lecture: Leo Corry - "Number crunching vs. number theory from Kummer to Sloane: Some reflections on the history of a mathematical discipline"	x
20.00	Wine reception		x

Saturday, November 3

h	Topic	Gr. ÜR	Mi. ÜR
9.30-10.15	Liesbeth De Mol - "Doing mathematics on the ENIAC. Von Neumann’s and Lehmer’s different visions"	x
10.30-11.15	Ingo Witzke - "Leibniz reconsidered: The radius of curvature"	x
11.30-12.15	Frauke Böttcher - "Mathematics, a self-taught discipline in the 18th Century"	x
12.15-14.00	Lunch break
14.00-14.15	Proceedings announcement	x
14.15-15.00	Derek Postnikoff - "Mathematical metaphor: Linguistic or conceptual?"	x
	Norbert Verdier - "Wer ist der Mathematiker und Historiker Franz Wöpcke (1826-1864)? Was schreibt er? Und wo?"		x
15.15-16.00	Tim Storer - "Gödel’s negative translation: Why intuitionism is no alternative"	x
	Harald Gropp - "The development of configurations from Reye to Hilbert"		x
16.00-16.30	Coffee break		x
16.30-17.15	Birgit Bergmann - " 'Incidentally the name is not our main problem' - the foundation of the Society of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics 1922/23"	x
	Roy Wagner - "A case study for the semiotic analysis of variables"		x
17.30-18.15	Laura Turner - "The influence of Gösta Mittag-Leffler and his journal Acta Mathematica on mathematical research, 1882 – 1914"	x
19.00	Excursion to Cologne, Hellers Brauhaus

Sunday, November 4

h	Topic	Gr. ÜR	Mi. ÜR
9.30-10.15	Gergely Kőhegyi - "Axiomatic theory of socionatural systems"	x
	Eva Wilhelmus - "Mathematical knowledge and 'degrees of proofness'"		x
10.30-11.15	Emil Simeonov - "Mathematics and the professionalisation of thinking"	x
	From scratch slot		x
11.15-11.45	Coffee break		x
11.45-13.00	Closing discussion	x